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27 January (10am PT) is the next anticipated event from Apple. The hottest innovation that we will be looking at is of course the tablet from Apple. Here is the summary of what the rumours had said. I rank the most probable rumour first and descending.

Name iPad, iSlate, iTablet, MagicSlate, Mac Tablet

OS OSX, iPhone OS

Screen LCD, E-Ink, AMOLED, Dual Mode LCD (Pixel Qi)

Screen Size 10″, 7″, 8″, 11″, 9″

Connectivity 3G, Wifi, GSM

Price $1000, $600, $800

Storage 64GB, 32GB, 128GB

Extra Webcam, Stylus, EBook

Tie to Carrier Some edition will be

My views

I think this Apple’s tablet will not be just a tablet like normal and certainly they have learnt from the failure of the Newton. Bringing their old Newton staff to be part of the staff for this all new tablet is a good example they are moving forward breaking away from tablet.

From their past successes on iPod and iPhone, I guess they will be banging on the Online Application store once more but with additional features. Releasing the tablet is not the main attention of Apple but tablet will expand the store more. With iPod, we got iTunes with music store. With iPod video, they have releases video. The strategy of iPhone bring us Appstore. Apple hope to bring video to more audience with AppleTV but AppleTV did not gain much success. With this tablet, the store will not only be selling video to the tablet, Ebook will also be the next hit to download from iTunes. Seeing popularity has risen since the launch of Kindle by Amazon as well as Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Apple sure want a piece of pie in Ebook market. Besides, Apple can provide what Amazon or Barnes and Noble cant provide which is the power of Store that tightly integrated with the writer. Many freelance program developer has gained profit from writing applications for iPhone, Apple maybe the platform for the freelance book writer to release their works. Anyway, this is a good example of the Internet. It revolutionize knowledge and information which used to be one-to-one relationship. Now we can see many-to-many relationship in knowledge exchange.

Be sure to stay tune for this event. Hopefully the tablet will live up to the expectation. For Malaysian, its in the morning of 28th January.

Sources:

• http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/22/rumor-apple-gunning-for-ipad-trademark/
• http://9to5mac.com/apple_event_confirmed
• http://gizmodo.com/5451391/guess-the-apple-tablet-features-win-one-for-yourself
• http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/apple-tablet-rumor-roundup-publishers-and-carriers-edition/
• http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/22/tablet-analysis-and-opinion-what-tuaw-has-put-on-the-table/